Bug#678013: gconf2: Gconf may crash Sun JVM running Eclipse

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "JM" == Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:

JM> Le lundi 18 juin 2012 à 18:12 +0200, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit :
>> I use Debian at work, on my employer machine.  I need to use
>> Eclipse and Sun JVM.

JM> Well, there’s your problem.

Sorry? My poor English is too weak to understand the meaning of this
sentence.

JM> Please provide a usable backtrace.
JM> http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

I tought you could use those in the Eclipse bug report. O.K., will
upload them.

>> Eclipse team thinks it is gconf related.

JM> Given the track record of Eclipse and the fact that only Eclipse
JM> seems to be affected, I’d be very cautious before accusing
JM> anything else.

The crash is in the JVM itself. Once it crashes, eclipse crashes.

>> I avoid the crashes preventing dbus startup.

JM> Huh? GConf will not work at all without dbus. (And actually almost
JM> nothing *will* work without dbus.)

I work perfectly w/o  Gnome, Kde, dbus and so on :)  :), the plain old
X11+window manager is all I need since  a long time, about 20 years :)
:). All I  need to use works: Firefox works,  Emacs works, bash works,
javac and java work, Eclipse works.

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